Shira Efron

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Shira Efron, PhD, is the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation senior director of policy research at Israel Policy Forum. She has spent some 20 years in U.S. think tanks, including the RAND Corporation, where she founded and led the Israel program between 2016 and 2022, the Center for American Progress, and Middle East Institute, and the Tel Aviv–based Institute for National Security Studies. She was previously a consultant with the UN country team in Jerusalem, where she focused on access and movement issues in Gaza. She has a PhD and MPhil in policy analysis from RAND’s Graduate School, an MA in international relations and international business from New York University, and a BSc in biology (major) and computer science (minor) from Tel Aviv University.